Drag and drop very long password from host MacBook to guest iPod Touch?

Question

Hi,
iPod Touch 64GB Software version 3.1.2. MacBook as in signature.
When I built my home wireless network, I chose a very long and complex password (63 characters) to protect the access to my network. Once the passphrase was randomly chosen, it was no problem to copy/paste it from the MacBook to the wireless router. The key is WPA (AES, TKIP)
But now, with the iPod i've just purchased, I have found no way to achieve that kind of transfer. I have tried to type the password manually into the iPod, but in spite of several very careful attempts, no success.
Please, two questions:
- does the iPod operating system support that kind of key? (WPA -AES,TKIP).
- if it does, is there any way I can copy it from the MacBook, and somehow paste it in the iPod, at the required location? Or any other way to "sync" the iPod so that it imports and remembers the password?
I know that a work around would be either to cancel encryption in my home network, or to change the password to something much more simple. I could do that, but that's the last ditch. I am not security obsessive compulsive, but the amount of private users networks around me are so many, and all of them are encrypted. There must be a reason for that
Thanks in advance,
Charly

Answer 1

Nearly three months with no response? I'm facing the very same issue. The fundamental problem is the inability to enter funky characters (backtick/grave accent, pipe/vertical bar, tilde, etc) in the Wifi password box.
Two possible solutions I can offer:
1) Enter the password in the Mail app, then copy/paste to the Wifi password box.
a. Go to the Mail application
b. Select the To or CC field
c. Press "123" access the non-alpha keys, then "#+=" to get access to grave accent (`), pipe (|), curly braces ({}), and tilde (~).
d. It's easiest to do the actual composition in the body of the email, so copy your funky characters from the To:/CC: field regularly.
d. When you're done, select all the characters, copy, and paste into the Wifi password box.
2) Email yourself the password and temporarily use a simple password on your network to retrieve said email from the Touch. Copy and paste the password into the Wifi password box.